[450] The link on batteries

[John Foege]

Nice load averages...but is anyone actually stressing the link??


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:38 PM, John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm curious what the objective of this whole experiment is??
>>
>> I could understand hooking up a deep-cycle gel cell marine battery or
>> something + a charging system + a 13.8V PSU = the link electronics /
>> transceiver would run 24/7 and have battery backup for power outages...
>>
>> But, I'm just curious in general what the point of fooling around with a
>> step-down converter and a long line of AAs is?? I'm not understanding what
>> the idea is.
>>
>> And, secondly, is it really a concern whether or not the link can run on
>> battery power? Or are you still thinking about Chris' suggestion of using a
>> big fat solar panel + a gel cell + charging system and making a portable
>> unit that can be hoisted up into a tree, etc. ?
>>
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>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:27 PM, David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>wrote:
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>>> I'm currently testing it with 8x generic AAs in series. So that's
>>> probably about 2500mA @ 12v. The raspi with wifi/soundcard running the link
>>> with my ssh session open is drawing around 275mA average from the batteries
>>> measured on the battery side of the dc/dc converter. It's been up for about
>>> 40 minutes and the batteries are reading a steady 12.01 volts. I don't know
>>> how long it will take before Vin < Vout (it just passes through lower than
>>> set voltage) will be enough to turn off but a back of the hand calculation
>>> of 2500mAh / 275mA = about 9 hours of run time.
>>>
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>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:05 AM, David McKenzie <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com>wrote:
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>>>> no, ~5.6v (because AAs run hot) down to 5v.
>>>>
>>>> that's a LM2596 switching regulator board; Vin > Vout only. I have 10
>>>> of them now. Supposedly something like 95% efficient. That's an 8-cell
>>>> battery pack I should load it up and give it another test.
>>>>
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>>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:50 PM, John Foege <john.foege at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>> 4 AAs in series? 5.2V to 12V DC-DC regulator?
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you set it for 1.3V to 13V and run the batts in parallel?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm assuming this doesn't make any difference in run-time due to
>>>>> either having a 1800 mAh 5.2V cell or a 1.3V 7200 mAh cell with the
>>>>> converter...unless I'm having a massive brain fart...
>>>>> On Oct 10, 2013 12:04 AM, "David McKenzie" <k1fsy at vhfwiki.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Got the switching regulator modules from China. It ran for 3 mind
>>>>>> on those 4 nearly dead AAs :)
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